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Irish Indymedia film about Genoa 2001 available from cultureshop.org

Indymedia Ireland | 11.09.2002 00:33

The Protests against the G8 in July 2001 in Genoa Italy were the biggest and most significant protests in Western Europe since the Poll Tax riots in the UK. Italian Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi, wanting to impress his new best mate George W. Bush, orchestrated a brutal Media/Police preemptive strike on the Anti-Capitalist Movements' biggest First World mobilisation to date.

Irish Indymedia film about Genoa 2001 available from cultureshop.org
Irish Indymedia film about Genoa 2001 available from cultureshop.org


When the weekend of protests ended Carlo Guiliani was dead and a school full of sleeping activists had been attacked in what is popularly referred to as the 'Chilean Night'. This film traces the events of the three days of protests in detail and poses the question - Was it all a setup? If Seattle was 'Star Wars' then this is 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

This feature length film is made from a combination of footage of the Genoa protests against the G8 shot by 10 members of IMC Ireland, material from the Italy IMC Archives and material from various other sources. This compelling footage combined with on the spot interviews and reenacted voiceover commentary and analysis from various websites which were active during the protests provides a in-depth blow by blow retelling of the story of the three days of the Genoa protests against the G8.

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And the indymedia film?

11.09.2002 09:03

So this is the irish film what about the collaborative indymedia film??? Genoa: Red Zone

james

There's loads of imc and other genoa films...

11.09.2002 10:22

There are lots and lots of films about genoa and many that have been made either by individuals or groups within imc's, by the imc itself, or as a collaboration.

This is obviously another one, and wow at 2 hours long quite an epic!

Has anyone seen it yet?

dave

The film is called Berlusconi's Mousetrap

11.09.2002 10:31

And comes out of the same collaborative process as Red Zone . . .

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